• Capacity Development Provider
EDNA Myanmar provides entrepreneurial education and enterprise development support to women, youth and disadvantaged groups across Myanmar. Working with Myanmar Red Cross Society, EDNA offers entrepreneurial education, mentoring, raising social capital and business network as well as developing a healthy ecosystem for aspiring entrepreneurs (internally displaced people) in the four program areas effected by the arm conflict in Kachin state, along with a number of programs running in parallel in Kachin and in other regions.
  • Stages of Support

    • Idea
    • Start-up
    • Early
    • Growth
    • Mature
  • Nonfinancial support delivery mechanism

    • Mentoring
    • Classroom / seminar training
    • Direct Consulting Services
    • Cohort or group support
  • Nonfinancial Support

    • Leadership development
    • Access to networks and partners
    • Marketing support or market research
    • Building HR capacity
    • Business strategy and planning
    • Financial management
    • Needs assessment
    • Performance management
    • Value / supply chain development
    • Ideation
    • Media exposure
    • Product certification
    • Other (specify below)
    • linkage with govenment support programs (which includes both access to financing and technical assistance)
  • Intervention Type

    • Provide nonfinancial services to entrepreneurs directly
    • Promote and educate about entrepreneurship
  • Sectors of Focus

    • Agriculture & Food
    • Education
    • Wholesale and retail trade
    • Sector agnostic
    • Creative & cultural
  • Stakeholder or Business Model Focus

    • Base of the pyramid
    • Social enterprise
    • Women entrepreneurs
    • Accessibility
    • Advocacy
    • Rural communities
    • Gender inclusion
    • Youth entrepreneurs
    • Resiliency / climate change
    • Minority or previously excluded population
    • Refugees and migration
    • Transparency and accountability
  • Impact objectives

    • Access to education
    • Agricultural productivity
    • Capacity building
    • Employment generation
    • Access to information
    • Equality and empowerment
    • Access to financial services
    • Access to markets
  • Verticals

    • None